Grace Notes: American Grace: How Religion Divides And United Us (Liberty Magazine)

David Pendleton reviews Robert D. Putnam’s and David E. Campbell’s new book American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.

EXCERPT:

“A leading, perhaps even the primary, reason that America manages to be both highly religious and highly religiously diverse is that most Americans do not believe that those with a different religious faith are damned,” conclude Putnam and Campbell. The takeaway message of American Grace might be succinctly summarized in a social harmony calculus: “Devotion plus diversity, minus damnation, equals comity.”

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